A Gentleman's Game: A Queen & Country Novel by Greg Rucka

By Greg Rucka

Tara Chace could be the most deadly lady alive. she will seduce you into believing she’s the lady of your dreams—or kill you with the icy potency of an executioner. because the new head of exact Operations for British Intelligence, she not has to courtroom loss of life within the field—she wishes to.Throw away the previous principles, the old fashioned, the old-boy community. the area of overseas espionage is set to benefit the challenging approach that spying isn't any longer merely…A Gentleman's GameGreg Rucka’s electrifying thrillers have driven the limits of suspense fiction to the place few have dared to head. Now, in A Gentleman’s video game, one of many genre’s such a lot fearless writers brings readers of overseas espionage his so much fearless heroine but: a no-holds-barred lady who’s as deadly as an assassin’s bullet.When an unthinkable act of terror devastates London, not anything will cease Tara Chace from removing these liable. Her task is easy: cease the terrorists sooner than they strike a moment time. To prevail, she’ll do something and every little thing it takes. She’ll need to kill back. basically this time the non-public stakes may be larger than ever earlier than. For the terrorist counterstrike would require that Tara permit herself for use as bait by way of the govt she serves. This time she’s turning her very existence right into a weapon that may be used just once. yet as she and her former mentor race towards future at a distant terrorist education camp in Saudi Arabia, Tara starts off to query simply who’s pulling the trigger—and who’s the genuine enemy. during this new type of conflict, betrayal can take any form...including one’s responsibility to queen and country.Based at the picture novel sequence that received the coveted Eisner Award, A Gentleman’s video game is an electrifyingly sensible, headline-stealing mystery with an unforgettable protagonist—one who redefines each rule she doesn’t shatter.

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In Rome, the assassination of the Pope on Christmas Day units off an enormous research that stretches around the globe. yet at the back of the veil of Rex Deus-the Templar cabal that silently wields strength within the twenty-first century-the plot has in basic terms simply began. whilst retired military Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday uncovers the genuine cause at the back of the pontiff's homicide, he needs to get to the bottom of a perilous layout to increase the Templar effect to the top degrees of strength.

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And probably not even then. ” Lankford asked. ” she said. ” “Immediate panic dies down, then everyone holds their breath waiting for the next one,” Poole agreed. ” Lankford scowled at Chace, then Poole, then at the plasma wall. ” “Nothing,” Chace said. ” Lankford stared at her, and Chace wasn’t certain if it was outrage or simple impatience she was seeing in his expression. She wasn’t certain she cared, either. All of twenty-six, an inch or so taller than Chace’s five foot ten, black hair and blue eyes that combined with a lack of distinctive features to make him a perfect “gray man,” as they were called in the trade.

The driver seemed to be handling the buy with the KLA, who had pulled up earlier, and all throughout the dance of “let’s see the merchandise” and its companion two-step, “show me the money,” Markovsky stayed put. Then the driver turned and signaled the general to join them, and before Markovsky had set a foot on the ground, Chace had put three pounds of pressure on the trigger and sent his brains misting onto the truck’s windshield. All hell had broken loose then, as everyone back in the Operations Room in London had known it would, and Chace had run, pursued by the angry KLA and the angrier Russians.

When it comes, it will be a Special Op, make no mistake. And when it comes, when the Government presents you with conops—whatever that concept of operations may be—I will not abide argument or hesitation. I will expect my Director of Operations to implement HMG’s orders immediately, and to see the mission through to its completion. ” “There will have to be retaliation,” Barclay said, rising. “When the PM asks me who is responsible for this, I want to be able to answer him in no uncertain terms, and saying the Harakat ul-Mujihadin won’t be enough.